Quotes about Children

I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage.

Unlike some other religions, we have never felt it served a higher purpose to lie to children about geology.

I am a believer in sensible choices, so different from many of my own. Also in sensible names for children.

In my own present day I am a legend, alive but more than alive, dead but more than dead. I'm a framed head that hangs at the backs of classrooms, of the girls exalted enough to have classrooms: grimly smiling, silently admonishing. I'm a bugaboo used by the Marthas to frighten small children

Little children, such as Anne, must never, ever correct their elders, no matter how many blunders they make or how often they let their imaginations run away with them.

It is a violation of trust to use your kids as caulking for the cracks in you.

At the same time, the truth is that we are beloved, even in our current condition, by someone; we have loved and been loved. We have also known the abyss of love lost to death or rejection, and that it somehow leads to new life. We have been redeemed and saved by love, even as a few times we have been nearly destroyed, and worse, seen our children nearly destroyed. We are who we love, we are one, and we are autonomous.

Time is so full for people who are dying in a conscious way, full in the way that life is for children. They spend big round hours.

All human beings have a right to life. Our unborn children are members of the human race. They're human beings, so they have a right to life.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.

Parenthood is an unspeakably solemn matter.